Re: dpkg-dev: please reject native/non-native version when building native/non-native source packages

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Subject: Re: dpkg-dev: please reject native/non-native version when building native/non-native source packages
From: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 14:38:57 +0100
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* Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@debian.org>, 2014-02-04, 13:30:

Enforcing Debian Policy at dpkg-source -b . level, is not a good idea,especially when it breaks backwards compat for 3rd parties. We havelintian, and ftp-master lintian auto-rejects to clense the archive ifso is desired.


Hear, hear. And I even doubt there's consensus it is desired.

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Jakub Wilk

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